Edge Manageability Framework 3.0 Release

[Andrea-Campanella]

3.0 Release Highlights

Released: 25th April 2025

Edge Orchestrator is the primary product within the Edge Manageability Framework
and
brings the ease of cloud-native deployment, orchestration, and management to
edge environments,
at scale.

Edge Orchestrator enables you to securely onboard and provision remote
edge devices to a central management plane, orchestrate Kubernetes clusters and
applications across distributed edge, at scale. Edge Node software provides the
profiles of infrastructure software configurations that get provisioned onto an
onboarded node.

Key Highlights of the release include, but not limited to:

• Zero-touch, secure, onboarding, and provisioning of remote edge nodes on
  management plane, that makes it easy to manage lifecycle of
  distributed edge infrastructure – from maintenance to upgrades.
• Onboarding remote devices either via HTTPs boot or USB-assisted boot to
  provide flexibility to onboard for a range of existing as well as new
  devices.
• Built-in security capabilities such secure onboarding, full disk
  encryption, secure communications, and so on to help with zero trust security
  needs at the edge.
• Ability to scale easily to thousands of edge nodes in distributed
  locations, enabling IT teams to have better visibility into the
  distributed edge infrastructure, from a single dashboard.
• Multitenancy support for multiple projects and organizations with
  centralized identity and access management for enhanced project and
  organization level isolation.
• Ability to orchestrate heterogenous Kubernetes clusters and deploy and
  manage applications via an application orchestrator through policies defined
  by the user.
• Advanced application orchestration capability to utilize application
  interconnects that can help build a fully automated pipeline such as those
  required for MLOps.
• Pre-built Edge Node Software profiles to provision edge nodes with Ubuntu OS
  as well as Edge Microvisor Toolkit immutable container host, enabling
  deployment of modern AI workloads in containers or virtual machines.
• Intel-GPU support built in, so that applications can easily take advantage
  of the computing power from integrated and discrete Intel® Arc™ Graphics
• An intuitive user interface to with a dashboard to have a simplified,
  central view into all the nodes, clusters, and applications running across
  the distributed edge infrastructure.
• Deep observability and telemetry built in, along with pre-built Grafana
  dashboards to look at the metrics for resource utilization, and so on,
  enabling
  teams to improve operational efficiency.
• Support for a range of Intel hardware, from Intel Atom® to Intel® Core™,
  Intel® Core™ Ultra, to Intel® Xeon®, Intel® Arc™ Graphics, and Intel®
  Ethernet Network Adapters that serves the diverse and heterogenous compute
  requirements at the edge.

For a detailed list of features, see the complete release notes.

The software comprises of the following key components:

• Edge Node Agents: A set of agents that run on the edge nodes as OS level agents.
  They communicate with the services running in the Edge Orchestrator and provide a
  consistent interface for the edge node software. Read more about [See Documentation].

• Edge Infrastructure Manager: Policy based secure life cycle management
  of a fleet of edge nodes/devices at scale, spread across distributed locations
  allowing onboarding, provisioning, inventory management, upgrades and more.
  Read more about Edge Infrastructure Manager.

• Edge Cluster Orchestrator: A lightweight multi-cluster orchestrator based
  the Cluster API (CAPI) standard designed to automate the deployment and
  lifecycle management of Kubernetes clusters at scale across distributed
  edges, providing centralized monitoring and access control.
  Read more about Edge Cluster Orchestrator.

• Edge Application Orchestrator: Offers customers the ability to easily
  package, deploy and monitor cloud-native applications at scale across
  distributed edges. Read more about Edge Application Orchestrator.

• User Interface: The web user interface for the Edge Orchestrator, allowing
  the user to manage most of the features of the product in an intuitive,
  visual, manner without having to trigger a series of APIs individually.

• Observability: A modular observability stack that provides visibility into
  the health and performance of the system, including logging, reporting,
  alerts, and SRE data from Edge Orchestrator components and Edge Nodes.
  Read more about Observability.

• Platform Services: A collection of services that support the deployment
  and management of the Edge Orchestrator, including Identity and Access
  management, multitenancy management, ingress route configuration, secrets
  and certificate management, cloud and on-prem infrastructure life-cycle
  management and more. Read more about Platform Services.

Documentation

Explore the complete documentation and specific guides below:

• Full Documentation
• Developer Guide
• Deployment Guide
• User Guide
• Contributor Guide

Edge Node system Requirements

• CPU:
  • 3rd Gen or newer Intel® Xeon® Processor
  • 12th Gen or newer Intel® Core™ or Core Ultra Processor
  • 8th Gen or newer Intel® Atom® Processor
  • 4 cores minimum
• RAM 8GB
• Storage
  • 1 Dedicated Data disk with minimum capacity of 100GiB(*)
  • SSD, NVME and SATA disk types
  • Priority order for provisioning is SSD, NVME, SATA. If multiple disk
    have the same name and type the smaller size one is selected.

Detailed Edge Node system requirements are published in our documentation.